Take Action: wipe factory farming off the UK map

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Tell your MP to support a new vision for farming and wipe factory farming off the map. Your county and postcode will allow us to identify your MP, and will authenticate your message.

The email that will be sent to your MP can be viewed here. If you wish, you can also use information from the factory farm map to add an introductory message to your MP about farming in your county/the UK, and you can also tailor the subject line of the email.

The email that will be sent to your MP can be viewed here. If you wish, you can also use information from the factory farm map to add an introductory message to your MP about farming in your county/the UK, and you can also tailor the subject line of the email.

Please note: This action is only available to UK residents. If you don’t live in the UK, pleaseclick here for alternative actions you can take to fight factory farming.

Dear [Name of your MP],

[Personalised message (optional)]

I believe the UK’s food system needs to change. Compassion in World Farming’s map of factory farming shows that the country's appetite for cheap meat, dairy and eggs has come at a great cost to animal welfare, our health and the environment. Around 70% of farm animals in the UK are kept in factory farms, where they spend their lives in overcrowded barns or cages.

Brexit gives us the opportunity to think about food and farming from scratch.

We need food and farming that produces nutritious food and encourages healthy diets; that enables us to meet the Paris climate targets; and that restores water, soils, wildlife and biodiversity so that they are passed in good shape to future generations.

Decent livelihoods for farmers and respect for animals as sentient beings, as individuals, must be core elements of the new policy.

At a national level please support these five areas of work, to help bring about a brighter future for British farming:

1. Ban Live exports – Introduce and/or support a Bill in the new Parliament to ban the live export of farm animals for fattening and slaughter from the day the UK exits the EU

2. End the Cage Age – End the use of cage systems for all farm animals

3. Labelling Matters – Mandatory labelling by means of production for meat and dairy products

4. Good Food Act – Support the enactment of a Good Food Act designed to achieve high environmental, nutritional and animal welfare standards

5. Antibiotics – Phase out the routine ‘preventative’ use of antibiotics that is propping-up unhealthy factory farm systems

Locally, please do all you can to ensure [your county] is part of the move away from factory farming.

Yours sincerely,

[Your name]

[Your postcode]

[Your email]

Dear [Name of your MP],

[Personalised message (optional)]

I believe the UK’s food system needs to change. Compassion in World Farming’s map of factory farming shows that the country's appetite for cheap meat, dairy and eggs has come at a great cost to animal welfare, our health and the environment. Around 70% of farm animals in the UK are kept in factory farms, where they spend their lives in overcrowded barns or cages.

Brexit gives us the opportunity to think about food and farming from scratch.

We need food and farming that produces nutritious food and encourages healthy diets; that enables us to meet the Paris climate targets; and that restores water, soils, wildlife and biodiversity so that they are passed in good shape to future generations.

Decent livelihoods for farmers and respect for animals as sentient beings, as individuals, must be core elements of the new policy.

At a national level please support these five areas of work, to help bring about a brighter future for British farming:

1. Ban Live exports – Introduce and/or support a Bill in the new Parliament to ban the live export of farm animals for fattening and slaughter from the day the UK exits the EU

2. End the Cage Age – End the use of cage systems for all farm animals

3. Labelling Matters – Mandatory labelling by means of production for meat and dairy products

4. Good Food Act – Support the enactment of a Good Food Act designed to achieve high environmental, nutritional and animal welfare standards

5. Antibiotics – Phase out the routine ‘preventative’ use of antibiotics that is propping-up unhealthy factory farm systems

Locally, please do all you can to ensure [your county] is part of the move away from factory farming.

Yours sincerely,

[Your name]

[Your postcode]

[Your email]

Mapping factory farming in the UK paints a grim picture for British agriculture: intensive farming has taken over food production. No longer do images of foraging chickens and pigs represent today’s British animal farming; more than 70% of farm animals in the UK are kept in factory farms.

The spread of factory farming to satisfy our appetite for cheap meat, dairy and eggs comes at a great cost: animals are suffering, farmers are struggling and our health and the environment are under threat.

Please note: this county list was determined by the data collection method used whilst creating the factory farm map. If the county you consider yourself to live in is not listed, please accept our apologies and select the nearest county to your own.

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Mapping factory farming in the UK paints a grim picture for British agriculture: intensive farming has taken over food production. No longer do images of foraging chickens and pigs represent today’s British animal farming; more than 70% of farm animals in the UK are kept in factory farms.

The spread of factory farming to satisfy our appetite for cheap meat, dairy and eggs comes at a great cost: animals are suffering, farmers are struggling and our health and the environment are under threat.